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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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